Wednesday, June 10, 2009

There is a ton of great live music coming to the Bay Area over the next few months. Our new Africa Mix friend Matt Heberger has done an excellent job of maintaining a current music calendar and making it public for all of us to enjoy. Please check out Matt's Live African Music Calendar by clicking here. Thanks so much, Matt!—Pamela

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

On this edition of Africa Mix I am joined by Cap Verdienne chanteuse, Maria deBarros, in a conversation I had with her recently while she was touring the San Francisco Bay Area.

Maria de Barrosis indeed a total package: Beautiful, intelligent, an angelic voice, extraordinary performer with a stage presence and certain magnetism which draws people to her world.

Ever since the release of her first CD, Nha Mundo, Maria has taken on the world stage, body and soul, to promote the music and culture of her country. Her second CD, Dança ma mi, came as a consecration that Cabo Verde has a new music diva to reckon with. Now having crisscrossed the world performing over the years, Maria released Morabeza, a CD offering a smorgasboard of various rhythms from her homeland.

Please join us for this fascinating conversation, and check out her new CD.